8 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain production blockchain infrastructure, including validators, RPC services, indexers, and supporting services.
- Ensure high availability and performance for AI-enabled developer platforms and internal tooling.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for protocol, infrastructure, and application health.
- Write automation and infrastructure code to reduce operational toil and improve reliability.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
- Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability, scalability, and security best practices into system design.
- Improve Kubernetes reliability across cloud and bare-metal environments.
- Refine deployment, rollback, and recovery strategies.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering.
- Production software engineering experience with Go and/or Python.
- Deep expertise operating Linux systems in production environments.
- Proven experience running Kubernetes at scale in high-availability environments.
- Experience supporting distributed systems with demanding uptime requirements.
- Strong infrastructure security mindset, especially for public or adversarial networks.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving startup environment with evolving requirements.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Exposure to AI-powered infrastructure, observability tools, or developer tooling is beneficial.
- Experience operating blockchain nodes or validator infrastructure is beneficial.
- Familiarity with Cosmos-based chains or EVM clients is beneficial.
- Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, or GitOps methodologies is beneficial.
- Active contributions to open-source projects are beneficial.
- Prior blockchain experience is not required.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with meaningful benefits.
- Full-time team members receive additional liquid benefits with upside based on role, experience, and impact.
- Flexible hybrid work environment in San Francisco.
- Opportunity to work on AI and blockchain infrastructure with modern tooling.
- Backed by top-tier investors.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About ZetaChain
ZetaChain builds a public blockchain and developer stack for cross-chain applications, enabling omnichain smart contracts that interact with networks like Ethereum and Bitcoin. The company also powers Anuma, a consumer AI app that uses encrypted, user-controlled memory, identity, and permissions on its network. Privately held and founded in 2021, ZetaChain is headquartered in San Francisco.